Captain Marvel lacks personality and drama. While it shoehorns in platitudes to feign allyship, it doesn't earn those themes. Instead, it has corny dialogue, tropes, predictability, weak motivations, no arcs, thin threats, missing setup/payoff, a convoluted structure, blunt exposition, MacGuffins, forced emotions, filler, dodged substance, boring villains, and no intimacy. The characters are shallow, inconsistent, stagnant, invincible, and dull. Its acting offers meager chemistry, charisma, enthusiasm, authenticity, and range. Thus, the script is highly derivative, unfocused, insincere, meaningless, and tepid. For Captain Marvel to be a feminist triumph, it needs a compelling story.
Technically, Captain Marvel is muddled, cheesy, generic, contrived, safe, and forgettable. The imagery has brief angles, lighting, focus, and filters, but is bland and basic. Its try-hard music is heavy-handed and unearned. The editing adds slo-mo, montages, clunky flashbacks, rushed pacing, sluggish momentum, and overcut action. Its production design offers sci-fi world-building and 90s era, but is routine and overdone. The effects provide makeup, stunts, and too much CGI (with significant uncanny valleys). Its sound uses muffling, stings, risers, genre elements, and echoing. The cast has depth, fame, and representation. Overall, Captain Marvel is surprisingly perfunctory.
Writing: 4/10
Direction: 5/10
Cinematography: 6/10
Acting: 6/10
Editing: 6/10
Sound: 8/10
Score/Soundtrack: 6/10
Production Design: 7/10
Casting: 9/10
Effects: 7/10
Overall Score: 6.4/10
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